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By the Numbers
15 Facts You Should Know About the Jews of France
The country with the largest Jewish population, after the Land of Israel and the United States, French Jews have experienced both severe persecution and incredible growth.
The country with the largest Jewish population, after the Land of Israel and the United States, French Jews have experienced both severe persecution and incredible growth.
10 Questions: Take the Jewish Kingdoms Quiz
Do you know which Jewish kingdom once flourished in southern Arabia?
Do you know which Jewish kingdom once flourished in southern Arabia?
Your Questions
How Do We Know There Won't Be Another Exile After This One?
The Jewish people have been redeemed twice before—once from Egyptian servitude and again from Babylonian exile. So what is it about the current dispersion that assures us the next redemption will be a permanent homecoming?
The Jewish people have been redeemed twice before—once from Egyptian servitude and again from Babylonian exile. So what is it about the current dispersion that assures us the next redemption will be a permanent homecoming?
What Does the Name Fruma Mean?
Fruma is a Jewish girls’ name, whose meaning is not as straightforward as you might think!
Fruma is a Jewish girls’ name, whose meaning is not as straightforward as you might think!
Weekly
Project Purpose
Project Purpose, an 18-week journey toward discovering and actualizing your unique purpose in life.
Project Purpose, an 18-week journey toward discovering and actualizing your unique purpose in life.
The Rapping Rabbi
Moshe Reuven's incredible spiritual journey included an NDE, topping the charts as a musician, business success, becoming a rabbi, and much more.
Moshe Reuven's incredible spiritual journey included an NDE, topping the charts as a musician, business success, becoming a rabbi, and much more.
Everything Jewish You Need to Know This Week
In today’s episode, we’ve got cluelessness, Jackie Robinson, and several varieties of Cairo; it’s time for your Jewish week.
In today’s episode, we’ve got cluelessness, Jackie Robinson, and several varieties of Cairo; it’s time for your Jewish week.
The Freeman Files
The Moon and Us
To an ancient Greek or a Hindu, passive stillness is masculine, activity and motion are feminine. To a Taoist, action is masculine and passiveness is feminine. In other words, if it is a virtue it is masculine. The Jew turns the pyramid on its head
To an ancient Greek or a Hindu, passive stillness is masculine, activity and motion are feminine. To a Taoist, action is masculine and passiveness is feminine. In other words, if it is a virtue it is masculine. The Jew turns the pyramid on its head
Halachah for Life
What You Need to Know About Warming Food on Shabbat
Forgot to put up the cholent before Shabbat—are you stuck with cold food?
Forgot to put up the cholent before Shabbat—are you stuck with cold food?
Birthday
Parshah
What Does the Word “Pekudei” Mean?
While it is commonly translated as “numbers” or “accounting” the term also lends itself to other interpretations.
While it is commonly translated as “numbers” or “accounting” the term also lends itself to other interpretations.
Getting to Know You
I find that life has gotten difficult. I wonder why G‑d has chosen to give me ALS.
I find that life has gotten difficult. I wonder why G‑d has chosen to give me ALS.
Video
Once there was a king who decreed: The people of Rome are forbidden to go down to Syria, and the people of Syria are forbidden to go up to Rome. Likewise, when G-d created the world He decreed and said: "The heavens are G-d's, and the earth is given to man." But when He wished to give the Torah to Israel, He rescinded His original decree, and declared: The lower realms may ascend to the higher realms, and the higher realms may descend to the lower realms. And I, Myself, will begin -- as it is written, "And G-d descended on Mount Sinai," and then it says, "And to Moses He said: Go up to G-d."
— Midrash Tanchuma, Vaeira 15
Print Magazine
Yom Kippur is described in many ways. One very poignant description is that it is “once in a year.”
You see, the human soul is also described in many ways, with five different names, each describing a deeper level of her being. The fifth, deepest level is called yechidah, which means “one and unique.” Yechidah is th...
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